Lynn Helm, Jr.
Home Town: Los Angeles, CA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lynn Helm, Jr., First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Laneuville, France, November 7, 1918. Acting as battalion telephone officer, Lieutenant Helm repeatedly went out himself under heavy fire rather than assign such hazardous missions to members of his detail, personally directing the repair and maintenance of a line which was severed 15 times in two hours within a length of only one kilometer.